Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

Most clinicians still underestimate the degree to which genetic factors shape personality traits and personality development. This is not controversial within behavioral genetics, but it remains ...

Tony Dokoupil is the anchor of the new "CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil." He previously served as co-host of "CBS Mornings" and anchored "The Uplift," a weekly series spotlighting positive and ...

Although the genetic cause of many diseases have been identified, it’s estimated that as many as 70% of patients with a rare disorder do not know what causes their disease. Millions of people live ...

We’ve all been there, sitting down to plan a lesson and finding nothing but an empty screen. The cursor blinks, the clock ticks, and suddenly that spark you were counting on feels completely out of ...

Santhosh Girirajan receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Genetic inheritance may sound straightforward: One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, ...

Many of us remember our high school lessons in genetics – drawing Punnett squares, examining our earlobes (attached? Detached?) or trying to roll our tongues. For Jiaxin Long, her genetics lesson ...

When speakers of different languages meet, their words, sounds and even grammatical structures mingle in surprising ways. Ketchup, for example, may be an American staple today, but its name entered ...

At Lyman C. Hunt Middle School in Burlington’s New North End, a large garden plot beside the sports fields yields cute cucamelons for students to marvel over, peas for teachers’ genetics lessons, ...

The University of South Florida is leveraging its position as Florida’s leader in genetic counseling and precision medicine to help launch a statewide program that will give families the option to ...

A new study has revealed that those with myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) have notable genetic differences from the general population. The DecodeME research team, led by ...